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Urgent Action Outcome: Critic Released After Serving His SentenceHisham Kassem was released from arbitrary detention on February 2024, after completing his full six-month prison sentence
Urgent action outcomes 30 Sep 2025 -
Human Rights Defender Released
Egyptian human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Ibrahim Ezz el-Din was released on 26 April 2022.
Urgent action outcomes 23 May 2022 -
Urgent Action Outcome: Student Released From Detention; Trial Ongoing
Patrick George Zaki, a researcher and master’s student, was provisionally released after 22 months of arbitrary detention
Urgent action outcomes 14 Feb 2022 -
Urgent Action Outcome: Activist And Filmmaker Released From Detention
On 23 December 2021, Egyptian human rights activist and filmmaker Sanaa Seif was released.
Urgent action outcomes 03 Feb 2022 -
Urgent Action Outcome: Human Rights Lawyer Released
After 22 months of detention, Mahienour el-Masry was provisionally released on 18 July.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2021 -
Egypt: feared National Security Agency systematically 'monitoring' activists into silence - new reportPress release 15 Sep 2021
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Urgent Action Outcome: Human rights defender released
On 17 July, the Egyptian authorities provisionally released journalist and human rights defender Esraa Abdelfattah.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Aug 2021 -
Egypt: 'deeply disturbing' propaganda video shows military killingsThe Egyptian authorities must urgently investigate what appear to be extrajudicial executions by members of the military in North Sinai, said Amnesty International, following analysis of a military propaganda video.
Press release 05 Aug 2021 -
Egypt: jailing of activist Sanaa Seif 'another crushing blow' for human rightsResponse to today’s jailing of the prominent Egyptian human rights activist and film editor Sanaa Seif after she was convicted of spreading “false news”, “misusing social media” and insulting a police officer on duty.
Press release 17 Mar 2021 -
Egypt: mother and baby were forcibly disappeared for two yearsPress release 04 Mar 2021
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Egypt: detainees in severely overcrowded jails being denied healthcare - new reportPrison officials in Egypt are subjecting prisoners of conscience and others held for political reasons to torture and deliberately denying them healthcare to punish their dissent.
Press release 25 Jan 2021 -
Urgent Action Outcome: Human Rights Defenders Released
On 3 December 2020, Gasser Abdel Razek, Karim Ennarah and Mohamed Basheer were released and are now safely home.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Dec 2020 -
Egypt: International community must step in to halt the crackdown on human rights, says Amnesty
EGYPT: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST STEP IN TO HALT THE CRACKDOWN ON HUMAN RIGHTS, SAYS AMNESTY
Press release 06 Dec 2020 -
Egypt: 'horrifying execution spree', with at least 57 killed in past two monthsThe Egyptian authorities have executed at least 57 people in the past two months in a “horrifying execution spree”, nearly double the number recorded for the whole of 2019.
Press release 01 Dec 2020 -
Egypt: Gasser Abdel-Razek subjected to cruel treatment in jailGasser Abdel-Razek, the recently-detained Executive Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, has been subjected to cruel and inhuman treatment in prison,
Press release 24 Nov 2020 -
Egypt: authorities must release activists detained in 'unprecedented' crackdownPress release 20 Nov 2020 -
Egypt: security forces crackdown on protesters with teargas, birdshot and live ammunitionTwo shot dead and more than 570 arrested – some as young as 11-years-old
Press release 02 Oct 2020 -
Egypt: 'Chilling' crackdown on female TikTok users must endWomen have been accused of ‘violating family values’ for posting pictures and videos.
Press release 13 Aug 2020 -
Egypt: Human rights activist arrested outside public prosecutor's officeSanaa Seif was detained whilst waiting to file a complaint after suffering a violent assault
Press release 23 Jun 2020 -
Egypt: medics arrested for speaking out over COVID-19 failingsThe Egyptian authorities have been using “terrorism” and “spreading false news” charges to arrest healthcare workers who have spoken out over safety concerns during the country’s COVID-19 crisis.
Press release 18 Jun 2020
